The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c32.14

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For Vijayasena we have three synchronisms. He is described as 'the friend of Choṛaganga (*Choṛaganga sakhaḥ*)'. Choṛaganga had an exceptionally long reign of more than seventy-one years, from A. D. 1076 to 1147. The earlier part of it coincides with thirty-eight years of the reign of Vijayasena, according to the chronology followed by R. D. Banerji, which seems to me now to be correct. The other two synchronisms are vague and imperfect. An inscription records that Vijayasena made captive four kings, namely, Nānya, Vīra, Rāghava, and Vardhana. We are also told that he 'impetuously assailed the lord of Gauḍa, put down the prince of Kāmarūpa, and defeated the Kalinga'. Unluckily, the record does not join the names of the kings and the countries. Nānya may mean Nānyadeva of Tirhūt, who, according to tradition, founded Simraun in A. D. 1097 and afterwards established the Karṇāṭaka dynasty in the valley of Nepāl.² I cannot positively identify either Vīra or Vardhana. One of them presumably must have been the Rāja of Kāmarūpa or Assam.